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Any fan of the ’90s sitcom “Frasier” probably remembers that the voices of Frasier Crane’s radio callers were a bit familiar. In the early seasons, celebrity callers were noted with a photo during the closing credits, but a casual viewer might have missed the hat tip.

This video combines all of Frasier’s famous radio patients into one montage. I admit that watching reruns is one of my favorite go-tos during veg-out time — and I didn’t realize who Frasier was talking to most of the time.

The Dan Savage who just debuted on MTV was nice-guy Dan Savage. The guy who tells kids there’s nothing wrong with them. The guy who tells them to think about safety. The guy who says to “embrace rejection” so they can one day have a serious relationship.

“Savage U” premiered on MTV Tuesday night, showing the Seattle-based sex columnist on a speaking tour of colleges around the U.S. The show’s content was about what you’d expect — rapid-fire successions of sex-related soundbites punctuated by electric-guitar rifts.

Don’t forget: Tonight’s the night Seattle-based sex columnist Dan Savage debuts an MTV show that just might make you realize how bad you are at having sex.

That’s sort of the point, according to this promotional interview with Savage. He says being gay is one of the reason he’s qualified to give advice about sex. After all, “gay people know more about sex.”

Seattle’s Lindzi Cox, the 27-year-old business development manager who recently took runner-up on “The Bachelor,” doesn’t have any desire to talk with Ben Flajnik after her rejected her on national television. And she doesn’t plan on seeking out winner Courtney Robertson, either.

“If I could speak to them, I think I would want them to know that I’m happy for them and I wish them the best,” she said in a conference all with reporters this week.

Lizzie Parker, a Microsoft employee turned fashion designer, is vying to be NBC’s next “Fashion Star.”

The new show pits designers against each other in a similar style to Lifetime’s “Project Runway.” Parker will be competing against 13 other unknown designers for the title “Fashion Star,” and the winner’s designs will be sold at Macy’s, Saks and H&M.

Parker, who sells clothes from a boutique in Issaquah now, writes on her NBC blog that her participation in the show “really shows that you can have a second career.”

First, the UK gets an extra espresso shot in their Starbucks lattes. Now, nations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East will be inundated with rare television commercials from the Seattle-based coffee company.

The ad campaign is part of an effort to shake things up in overseas markets, reports Bloomberg:

The women of Seattle just aren’t good enough for the men of “The Bachelor.”

Last year, Mercer Island resident Chantal O’Brien played runner-up on the ABC show when Brad Womack picked a 25-year-old single mother from North Carolina. And Monday night, current bachelor Ben Flajnik passed over Seattle resident Lindzi Cox and instead proposed to Scottsdale’s Courtney Robertson.

Cox’s family lives in Ocala, Florida, but the 27-year-old business development manager lives in Seattle. She was silent when Flajnik said he loved her and thought she was everything he’d ever wanted in a woman, but couldn’t give her that sought-after rose.